Using Tumblr or Wix to build your website?

I don't know why other people prefer wordpress. I like it because I bought a premium theme and learned to work with it to produce sites that looked the way I wanted them to. And my sites looked OK out of the box so to speak until I learned and practiced enough to make them look the way I wanted.

I have gotten used to working with worpdress. I suppose if I had started with learning html and css, I would probably be comfortable with that, but I didn't.

Template sites do have some drawbacks, it takes a bit of work to get different looking pages, but what I wanted mostly was a site I could use today, not wait for weeks for a designer or a year to learn enough coding and design to get what I wanted.

A WP site has got some perks as far as being able to promote it around the internet,but really for me it was about getting the site up now, instead of next week.

I know of no reason why you shouldn't use Wix, if you want to. As long as you use one of their paid hosting packages and not the free service which leaves them with effective ownership and control of your site. It's absolutely fundamental that you have to own and control your own site, and use your own domain-name (which you don't register through the host) for it. You can do all that at Wix.

Until some time late last year, there was a significant problem with Wix in that they offered only "flash"-based sites, but that's no longer so.

But you should certainly stay away from places like Tumblr, Blogger, Squidoo, HubPages (and so on), for reasons of security among others.

I'm not a Wordpress user, myself, though I can see from its popularity and the availability of help/support/training that it has advantages for many. I think it's reached such a "critical mass" now that people think "you're weird if you don't want to use it". It's become self-perpetuating. Well, I don't want to use it, for now anyway; but I do understand why many others do.